So I mades some foods.
It was actually a bento recipe, from the Just Bento site. She called it Sweet Pepper and Carrot confetti. So I guess that's what I'll call it as well. It's a really simple recipe, which I obviously adore, because hard complex recipes make my eyes go funny.
Ingredients:
1/2 an onion
2 sweet peppers (I think bell peppers should be fine)
1 medium sized carrot
1 stock cube
340ml of hot water
2 tablespoons of soy sauce
Black pepper
Makes approximately 2/3 servings (depending on how hungry you are!)
I chopped diced up half of a red onion I had lurking in my fridge (terminology is hard!).
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Then I chopped up the sweet peppers too!
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Eventually they end up diced.
Then I got confused. How do you dice a carrot!?
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By cutting each slice into quarters? No?
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Well that's how I did it. Oh well.
The original recipe calls for dashi, but I'm not that authentic. And I don't have any vegetable stock in *carnivore face* So I used a fish stock cube.
Hello fishy!
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I dissolved the stock cube in about the hot water, and then put it on to boil.
Is it boiling? Is it boiling? Did I put in too much water?
No, it's okay, it's boiling.
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Getting this close is a silly thing to do.
Then I put the chopped vegetables (the onion, the carrot and the peppers) into the boiling stock...
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and left it until all the water had evaporated. It took about 20 minutes. ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4173ng9MQIQxefUoDCk7-fXYHm08s1Nw7tR3n9wFXNLSONoccmmV6kZca-KH7GANJoe0qVsKLtbQbvo1wbhorY1m8-QXXZhgB0Fxn9kB7-zA4QIn1U8wFJ7YXwcsCJtdUdDOS3pahOs/s320/141020101031.jpg)
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Then I threw in about the soy sauce (it sizzles incredibly) and added a liberal amount of black pepper.
All that was left was lovely, caramelised vegetables - or confetti, if you're trying to sell this to people who despise the 'v' word.
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I ate it with brown rice and sprinkled nori on top.
This is the moderate amount of nori I put on for presentation. And then I om nom nommed my way through the entire plate.
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This is a trick (said in Yoruba accent!). Confetti! I was expecting something else. Ah well veggies are good!
ReplyDeleteBwhaha! I thought it invovled sweets when I first read the title...afraid not...though that might make a nice idea in future!
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